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unusual facts about Edwin S. Grosvenor



Bernard Durning

He rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Edwin S. Porter, Charles Brabin, and John Hancock Collins.

Charles G. Bond

Bond, a nephew of American Civil War general Charles H. Grosvenor, was born in Columbus, Ohio the son of William W. and Frances (Currier) Bond.

David O. McKay School of Education

The David O. McKay School of Education began in 1913 as an integral part of BYU named the Church Teachers College with Edwin S. Hinckley as the first dean.

Desperate Poaching Affray

The film, along with Frank Mottershaw's film A Daring Daylight Burglary, is considered to have helped launch the chase sub-genre and influenced Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery.

Detmar Blow

Blow designed various properties for Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, including Château de Woolsack, a hunting lodge in Mimizan, France, near Bordeaux.

E.O. Grosvenor House

It was built as a private home for Ebenezer O. Grosvenor, and now operates as the Grosvenor House Museum.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

In his Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) and Life of an American Fireman (1903) he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

Edwin S. Shneidman

In 1970, he became Professor of Thanatology at the University of California, where he taught for decades.

As an intern, he studied schizophrenia, then thought to be environmentally caused, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brentwood|.

Edwin S. Underhill

Underhill was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915).

Joseph J. Thorndike

American Heritage sold to McGraw-Hill in 1970, to private investor Samuel Pryor Reed of New York City in 1976, to Forbes in 1986, and to an independent publisher, Edwin S. Grosvenor, in 2007.

Mabel H. Grosvenor

Bell, far ahead of his time in support of social equality and a strong supporter of women's rights, encouraged Grosvenor's mother and grandmother to march in 1913 on the U.S. capital in support of women's right to vote.

As a secretary and note taker to the scientist she took dictation as he explored genetics, genealogy, telecommunications and marine architecture in the form of the world's fastest boat, the HD-4, a hydrofoil propelled by two of the most powerful aircraft engines and propellers then available.

Robert Puleston

He was a witness in the Scrope v. Grosvenor Trial at Chester in 1386, alongside another witness Owain Glyndŵr.


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